whattingawhat | RP for stillacrime So don't be shy, you'll soon be high, we'll to

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RP for stillacrime So don't be shy, you'll soon be high, we'll to

Coney Island was a great idea. In so many ways Buffy was still very much a tourist in New York City. Danny had gotten home keyed up and as was Buffy so they'd decided on Coney Island. Buffy had thrown on a pair of dark denim capris and a slate blue sweater that slid off her shoulders. She'd put her hair in pigtails and thrown on a pair of silver puma tennis shoes. Now they were standing in line for The Cyclone. Buffy was bouncing on the balls of her feet. She squeezed Danny's hand and leaned over to kiss the side of his neck.

"It's been years and years since I've been on a roller coaster."

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He canted his head away, leaning into the kiss at his neck. He was so glad that Buffy didn't mind going out at night. Since he had been stuck in the lab more often than not because of the headlines and yet unresolved scandal involving his family, he had wanted to not be cooped up for awhile at night.

His lips curled into a crooked, boyish grin. "Just don't go pukin' on me, Summers."

"Pssssh, do I look like I've got a weak stomach?" Buffy teased him back. She knew that things were hard for Danny right now. His family was still in the papers nearly every day and he was still not really able to go see them because of his job. She'd been trying to distract him and keep him busy and possibly some of her slaying was slacking but she still went out every night to be duty girl. She just tried to get back home sooner so he wouldn't be alone too much.

"I think the last time I threw up was when I found Mom. Stomach like iron most of the time," she assured him.

"Alright alright. Point made." Danny turned his head and leaned down to kiss her forehead. The park was only semi-busy as it wasn't quite Summer yet. It was the perfect time of the year to go. "Haven't taken time to get here in a long time."

Buffy tilted her face up slightly to Danny when he kissed her forehead. "That's what I'm here for. Make sure you take time to have fun," she told him as they moved forward in the line.

"Yeah I think you're here for a lot more than that." Danny countered, his shoulders lifting in a slight shrug.

"I am?" Buffy asked, blinking up innocently at him. For a moment panic settled in her stomach, fear that he'd found out what she was somehow. She banished it quickly though. He wouldn't have taken her to an amusement park to talk about something like that. He would have done it more privately.

"Yeah..." He looked sideways to catch her gaze. "You're... like fate or somethin' corny like that. Don't you think we're fate? Meetin' in that bar wasn't coincidence... right?"

"I don't think it was coincidence," Buffy shook her head. She looked down at their hands twined together and then back up at him. "Fate hasn't always been very good to me so I have a hard time believing something as good as you can be Fate's doing but I think that we're...something better than fate? Does that make any sense?"

"What, like destiny?" Danny asked around a crooked grin. Both fate and destiny worked for him, but he would go with what worked best for Buffy... even if it was something else.

"Oh God no. Not destiny." The words were out of her mouth before she could stop them. She bit her bottom lip, realizing Danny would probably take that bad. "I don't mean that how it sounds," she quickly injected, hoping to do damage control before Danny could run away with her words.

"Can it just be...free will? Can you be something I chose? Something I wanted and not something anyone else or anything else planned for me? 'Cause I like that idea. That we're a we because we made that choice. Not because some gossip-y ladies bored with soap operas decided to toss us together."

See! She read mythology (okay so Giles read it to her) She knew who the Fates were.

The smile was instantly wiped away at that reaction, his brow furrowed around confusion as he listened. He wrinkled his nose, glancing away and then down to the ground. He could understand the thing with choice. After all, he was who and where he was because of a series of choices... choices that he still made everyday.

Still...

That reaction was a surprise that he was trying to wrap his head around. "Yeah. Yeah, sure. This can be that. Sure."

Buffy stepped in front of him, staying close and cupping his face in her hands. She lifted his gaze up to meet hers. "You know all those things I'm going to tell you one of these days...context for this is one of them. Suffice to say, I don't get to make a lot of my own choices in life. I haven't since I was sixteen. I want you to be a choice in my life. I want you because I want you. Not because fate or destiny or anything else told me I could have you. If we're destiny or fate...they can decide to take you away from me. If you're my choice no one can decide to take you away from me. Ever. Only I decide that."

Edited 2008-05-02 06:18 (UTC)

Okay that was sweet. And it was easy to smooth things over with Danny. Especially since all he really asked of Buffy was that she wanted to be with him as much as he wanted to be with her. He didn't need much else to consider the cup half full.

He nodded slightly. "And you wanna be with me."

"And I wanna be with you," Buffy nodded, a smile curving her lips. She went up on her tip toes and pressed a kiss to his mouth then went back down to the flat of her feet.

"And I decided that. When I make decisions, I hang onto them and see them through. You're stuck with me, Bucko."

"Bucko??" Danny chuckled lightly and shook his head. "You gotta be kiddin' me. Bucko??"

Buffy laughed and shrugged. "What's wrong with Bucko? Apparently I am nickname giving girl with you. Is Rocky better? Or...OH! I know, Daniel. You're stuck with me, Daniel. Does that make it sound more official than Bucko? What's your middle name? I could use your whole name 'cause that's really got the punch of authority to it. You know when Mom used to say Buffy Anne Summers...I cringed 'cause I knew she meant business. I mean business so I should use your whole name here."

"Daniel or Rocky works good enough. Stick with those and we're golden." He touched the tip of his index finger to the tip of her nose.

She mocked pouted, ducking her head slightly to look at him from underneath her lashes.

"But I like Boyfriend too and...what if I come up with new names for you? I'll just use Daniel when I'm serious...or when I'm teasing. Really you can never ever tell. You just have to trust me when I say I'm serious and I am. About this. The whole us thing not the whole name thing."

"Alright alright. Just no Bucko, alright? How's a guy supposed to take that serious?" Danny teased, gliding the pad of his thumb over her lower lip

Buffy kissed his thumb then lightly bit it, teasingly. "Awww but I like Bucko," she continued to pout. Finally she smiled and shook her head. "Okay. No Bucko."

She bit her bottom lip and pulled it through her teeth. The words I love you were on the tip of her tongue but she couldn't. Not while he still didn't know everything. It left her open to so much more hurt if she said it and then he left. Instead she took a deep breath, tip toed and pressed a kiss to his lips. "I'm really glad I moved here and I'm really glad you let me move in with you. We have fun, yeah?"

"Call all the guys you don't like 'bucko' then give 'em that sweet smile you got. Like a slap in the face. Boom." Danny said amusedly.

He squeezed her hand in his as they moved up in line again. "I'm tellin' you that I like havin' you around. I want you around. Lots of fun."

Buffy laughed and shook her head. "Boom." She lifted his hand up to her lips and kissed his knuckles. They were near the front of the line now and as the car pulled up, the operator opened the gate and let them in. Buffy tugged him to the front car and got inside.

"You have to be in the front car. It's the best one."

"Wo-ho... front car. Dare devil, huh?" Danny sat down in the front car with Buffy and pulled the bar down over their laps to hold them in. "That's kinda hot."

"Just call me Evel Knievel," she joked as she scooted closer to Danny. "And I am so not complaining because it's hot that you think I'm hot but you are sooooo biased," she teased him as the rollercoaster jerked and started clack-clacking up the first climb.

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"Now this is one of the oldest coasters in the US. Isn't called the Cyclone for nothin'. Like a twister goin' down towards the end. Just warnin' you." Danny said.

"I think I can handle it," Buffy giggled. "So do we hold our hands up on the descents?"

"Hell yeah. And scream our heads off." His smile turned boyish and playful.

Buffy laughed and leaned over to kiss Danny just as the rollercoaster approached the crest of it's first climb. "Good to know what the rules are," she teased.

He leaned into the kiss that somehow he knew was coming. But then had his hands in the air, screaming as the roller coaster dipped over the edge and down so fast around a curve.

Edited 2008-05-03 03:28 (UTC)

Buffy felt the track give way a split second before the car dipped. She put her hands up in the air and screamed as it went over the edge and spiraled through a curve. It leveled out a little and she was laughing breathlessly. The feeling of falling didn't bother her. In fact she kind of liked that weightless feeling but her body always tensed for pain that had only come that once. She looked over at Danny with a big grin on her face.

"Good scream there Rocky."

"You kiddin' me? If there's anything that Messer's are, they're loud." Danny gripped the bar again as the cars coasted and then started up the next ascent.

"There's something to be said for loud," Buffy grinned. She slipped one arm under his, her hand holding onto the bar between his. Her other hand stayed on her side of the car.

"So if I were gonna throw up, at what point exactly would you want to know?" she asked, unable to keep the mischief out of her eyes.

His gaze snapped sideways to her, eyebrows lifted. "No pukin', Summers. Said you wouldn't. But if you do... do it that way." He pointed to the opposite side of the car.

Buffy laughed and shook her head. "You are so easy, Rocky. I'm kidding. I'm not going to throw up. Not even remotely close," she assured him just as the car started into it's second descent. She threw her hands up in the air and screamed at the top of her lungs.

Danny beamed, his own hands going into the air as he let out a loud yell. As they leveled out again, he turned to look at her. "Good still? Cause the last one's a doozey."

"Good still," Buffy nodded with a grin. She leaned against him, one hand going to his knee. "I've fallen a lot further than this will ever go, Boyfriend. I'm good."

"What, you been to one of those giant roller coasters? Some of those drops... shit." Danny shook his head, looking sideways to her around an excited grin as they started going up again.

"Yeah straight down and it felt like it took forever to fall," Buffy nodded. She couldn't help but return Danny's grin. He looked like a little boy and she'd ride this silly roller coaster over and over again to see him look like that. Particularly now when everything was so hard.

"Been on some of those... like at six flags." Danny nodded. "Ever been to six flags? Lots of stuff to do there."

Buffy shook her head. "Nope. Used to go to Disneyland all the time when we were little 'cause we lived in LA but never Six Flags."

"You probably been to Disney lots livin' so close to it. Never been. Always thought it looked nice enough though." Danny said.

"We'll go sometime," Buffy told him with a smile. "I'll take you."

About that time the final descent and spiral came up so Buffy threw her hands up in the air and screamed on the way down.

The spiral was the best part. And Danny threw his hands up in the air too, the hand closest to her finding hers and linking fingers. "Woooooooooooo!" He screamed.

Buffy's scream echoed Danny's and when the coaster jerked to a stop back where it'd started her fingers were still entwined with his. The lap bar disengaged, raising up and they scooted out of the car and headed toward the exit.

"That was fun," she told him, flushed and slightly breathless as they walked.

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